Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 2 | With the appointment of Shearman as the Board 's resident tutor in Bedfordshire and Baker 's appointment to a similar post for Cambridgeshire for the development of rural adult education , the Board 's rural areas sub-committee had emerged as a de facto permanent committee of the Board — a position constitutionally confirmed in 1932 through its formal designation as the Board 's Rural Areas Committee with Professor Barker as its chairman . |
| 3 | The question remained unanswered , for Counsel for the applicants accepted that any cause of action based on the treaty would not be justiciable in the English courts . |
| 4 | DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia . |
| 5 | The stall is booked for Saturday for the energy conservation bill campaign . |
| 6 | He had represented the rural seat of Mid-Londonderry for eight years when , in 1953 , he challenged the incumbent MP for Foyle for the nomination . |
| 7 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 8 | Hundreds of New Age vehicles are heading for Stonehenge for the weekend , but they 'll be turned away and could head north into Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | ( Dvorak devotees can count their blessings for his stubborn spirit ; the composer 's American patron had requested an opera about Hiawatha for the great occasion . ) |
| 10 | Dr Swire , whose daughter Flora was among the Lockerbie dead , said : ‘ At the very least I think the Libyans will blame the sanctions imposed after Lockerbie for the crash . |
| 11 | The Quality Scotland Foundation , chaired by , was formed in late 1990 by a group of prominent Scottish Businesses who recognised the need for a survival strategy for Scotland for the nineties and beyond , focusing on the quality issue for economic , commercial , environmental and social development . |
| 12 | Nicholas , who had missed the victory Mass for Kyrenia for the sake of an axe in his shoulder was present today , in body if not especially in mind , from the look of him . |
| 13 | ‘ This , therefore , is a vital game for England for the future , not for history . ’ |
| 14 | The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners . |
| 15 | The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol . |
| 16 | BCRS wish to thank Mr Graham Vincent of Wolverhampton for the donation to the Society of 6 photographs of stations on the BCR , taken in 1942 . |
| 17 | Architects for the conversion were Cecil Denny Highton and Partners and the work was carried out in two phases , the contractors for the first being Newman and Kerry of Aldershot , and J. Edwards and Sons of Waterlooville for the second . |
| 18 | A PEDIGREE Charolais heifer has been donated by Harry and Jean Marguess of Muckamore for the ‘ Farm for Africa ’ project , part of an overall drive spearheaded by Magheralin Parish Church to buy a 100-acre farm in Uganda and stock and equip it . |
| 19 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 20 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 21 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 22 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 23 | Stuart is having a social event on the eleventh of March for the media and the police , I 'll circulate this round with a er slip on it , erm it involves a conducted tour of the police station and some bits and bobs |
| 24 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 25 | He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States . |
| 26 | well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years . |
| 27 | From time to time the Tanganyika government proposed excision of parts of Masailand for the use of other tribes , and Masai District Officers could be relied on to oppose these proposals . |
| 28 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 29 | Yep , forsaking the toilets of Blighty for the , erm , toilets of Noo Yawk ( Noo Yawk 's legendary CBGB 's actually — Ed ) , KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION are now busy shifting , erm , kitchen units across the pond faster than a microwave can dry a poodle . |
| 30 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |